Four ways to get OpenStack on Ubuntu

Fully managed OpenStack on premises, by Canonical

Canonical’s Bootstack team will design, build and operate a production OpenStack cloud on your premises from only $15 per server per day. When your team is ready, we’ll transfer control of your cloud to them.

This is the recommended way to get to production quickly, enabling you to ramp your workloads efficiently and move beyond legacy virtualisation.

Developer OpenStack — single or multiple machine

Use Canonical’s conjure-up installer with LXD containers to deploy a simulated multi-node OpenStack that is fast and lightweight. Ideal for first-time users or developers who want to see the various components of OpenStack in action.

Use it with MAAS (‘Metal as a Service’) to deploy across many servers and scale it to many racks.

Self-install a reference architecture OpenStack

Canonical’s OpenStack Autopilot is a fully automated deployment, management and operations tool for the hyper-converged OpenStack reference architecture. It is recommended for larger production deployments on homogenous hardware.

Some customisation is possible through manual placement of administrative, compute, network or storage services.

A selection of our OpenStack clients

Conjure-up OpenStack

Canonical’s conjure-up is an installer for complex topologies of interconnected software, like OpenStack and Kubernetes, or Hadoop. It works on Amazon, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Rackspace and private infrastructure - bare metal, LXD containers, VMware or OpenStack.

Want to try out Ubuntu OpenStack or Kubernetes for the first time? Start with conjure-up. Conjure-up is an open source command line tool written in Python. It uses ‘spells’ which describe the applications to deploy — modify, create and publish your own spells easily to share your reference architecture inside the organisation.

BootStack — fully managed OpenStack on premise

BootStack a private OpenStack cloud managed remotely by Canonical. This is the fastest way to get to production. It runs on your hardware, in the datacenter of your choice with our experts responsible for deployment and 24/7 support.

Consulting and Build: Production OpenStack in 3 weeks

Engage us for a Foundation Cloud Build to get a full production OpenStack cloud up and running in 3 weeks using the reference architecture. With model driven operations and upgrades to future OpenStack releases guaranteed, the OpenStack cloud from Canonical is the fast track to efficient cloud success. Optional consulting available to tailor the architecture to your specific requirements.